[Fwd: Documentação sobre Debian]

2001-11-09 Thread Luis Alberto Garcia Cipriano
Original Message Subject: Documentação sobre Debian Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:50:48 -0200 From: Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Luis Alberto Garcia Cipriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Existe algum local onde eu consiga documentação sobre Debian no formado PDF ou PS (além do debian-br),

Re: Probelam com autenticação sshd

2001-11-09 Thread kleber_leal
Eu tenho um problema com códigos fontes compuilados na maquina(a maioria dos meus pacotes) na verdade são dois problemas: 1 - Eu fiz download dos fontes do openssh,compilei e instalei, agora eu quero rodar o servidor de ssh pra poder receber conexões, o problema é que os clientes conseguem

Re: Brasileiro substitui Alan Cox

2001-11-09 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:12:19PM -0400, Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: em sex nov 09, 2001 at 08:52:27 -0200 *José Claudio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) escreveu: Linux nas mãos da Conectiva?... Está no site da info Isso me deixa preocupado... não fique. a Conectiva como um todo já mostrou

Crash do sylpheedy no woody

2001-11-09 Thread vmaida
Olá, eu instalei o pacote do sylpheed 0.6.1 no woody e após ele baixar as menssagens do provedor ele fechou e ao abri-lo as mensagens não estavam nem lá e nem no servidor. Alguém sabe o que aconteceu ou aonde podem ter parado as mensagens? Eram 255 :-(( []s Victor Maida

Re: Brasileiro substitui Alan Cox

2001-11-09 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
não fique. a Conectiva como um todo já mostrou competência e contribui em vários projetos de software livre ( incluindo o kernel que eu e você usamos ). eu me preocuparia se o escolhido fosse algum aborrecente chato que só sabe falar mal das outras distribuições que não sejam

Re: [Fwd: Documentação sobre Debian]

2001-11-09 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:57:20 -0200 Luis Alberto Garcia Cipriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Existe algum local onde eu consiga documentação sobre Debian no formado PDF ou PS (além do debian-br), como os manuais que existem no site da Conectiva? Dei uma olhada em debian.org mas lá só existem

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:46:50AM +0700, Kristiadi Himawan wrote: Do you know root password ? Then when you boot in lilo just go to init 1 and fix the configuration in /etc/inittab And he would do this as an alternative to the correct method(s), right? I wonder what you think he's going to

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:48:34PM -0700, 57j wrote: I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? You didn't turn it on... you installed a display manager. Since that display manager is an X

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: i dont know which pop3s servers and clients has been debianized As far as servers go, ipopd-ssl, and courier-pop-ssl are two. I'm sure there are others. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: imaps taking a very long time to complete

2001-11-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Andrew Pritchard wrote: I've got an IMAP server setup at home - which works internally just fine. However, I'm about to go on holiday and would like to be able to collect my email over the net. However I don't want to send my cleartext password over 3000 miles of

Re: imap server

2001-11-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 6 Nov 2001, Ross Burton wrote: On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 15:43, Robert L. Harris wrote: I need to throw up an IMAP server for my mother in law. I'm looking for a package (sid compatable) that'll take 2 mins to configure and 0 maintenance. Any thoughts on a preference? Yes I can

Re: IMAP security

2001-11-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Antti Tolamo wrote: Just noticed something odd, not sure is this a security problem or what. I have Debian potato server for own use , where I few days ago installed IMAP 4.7c-1 because WAP email reading PHP/WML script from: Ugh that's old. Get 2001a.

Re: unstable: could not open default font 'fixed'

2001-11-09 Thread Josh McKinney
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Michael P wrote: After restarting my computer to install a new kernel, X refuses to start. I get: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I recently ran into this problem and here is my fix. dpkg -i --force-confmiss

USB PPP problem

2001-11-09 Thread aparra
Hello I know it sounds strange, but I have debian 2.2R3 and it works perfect with kernel 2.2.19 but not usb, I think that my board is not suported (I have an IWILL, with K6, I can´t remenber the model). If I try to use kernel 2.4.13 I get the usb working, but I cant use ppp, geting a strange

KISWAHILI LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM PROJECT

2001-11-09 Thread swahili Linux Project
Dear Sir/Madam, We are students at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania taking B.Sc. in Computer. We are doing the Final year project titled DESIGNING THE KISWAHILI VERSION OF LINUX OS The first phase of this project was done by our fellow students who have completed their studies.

How to use the driver-1.bin image?

2001-11-09 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi, deal all I want to use the files in /dist/stable/mail/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact on the Debian official CD-Rom. There're three files in this directory: driver-1.bin rescue.bin root.bin I know that rescue.bin is a fat12 image, and root.bin is a gziped ram disk. I

Re: php4 in woody - won't start

2001-11-09 Thread Fabio Cesari
I had exactly the same problem (with apache1.3.19 on woody). It's a bug. This solved the problem: ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 Fabio http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200111/msg01230.html --- John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Hi all,

Newbie comments queries

2001-11-09 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, Brenda, et al Did not have time yesterday to check out all the suggestions offered but will do so this weekend. The lpr switch -i appears to do nothing for the margin. Thus, The bad news is, according to the lpr man page, this option is not supported on all printers. I never saw

Re: setting ultra DMA for hdd at boot time?

2001-11-09 Thread xio
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:46:25AM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: [...] A problem I have encountered is that my harddiscs are not in UDMA mode after boot up. Ok I can set them with hdparms every time and could also put that in a boot script, but there should be better way as most drives are now

Re: setting ultra DMA for hdd at boot time?

2001-11-09 Thread Anthony Liu
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:19:38AM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 17:01, nate wrote: not all systems work good with DMA on. especially some VIA chipsets. i had major problems with DMA on them so i stopped using the onboard ide and started using promise ata100 cards in

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-09 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
On 2001.11.08 23:44 Michael D. Schleif wrote: You can use 'basename' command to remove complete path.

Re: How to use the driver-1.bin image?

2001-11-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Yuwen Dai wrote: Hi, deal all I want to use the files in /dist/stable/mail/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/compact on the Debian official CD-Rom. There're three files in this directory: driver-1.bin rescue.bin root.bin I know that rescue.bin is a fat12

Re: USB PPP problem

2001-11-09 Thread Steve Kieu
ppp, geting a strange error about a tty, and I have also I think it is separate problem, probably you should fix ppp, Try to use different kernel in 2.4.x ; and let us know about your modem (is it isapnp modem? ) and ppp config, it may help. Or any error message it spurts What

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-09 Thread P Kirk
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:29:57PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 20:07:04 +, P Kirk wrote: install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! Operation not permitted Weird. link(2) lists only two possible causes for EPERM: The filesystem containing oldpath and newpath

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-09 Thread Paul Sargent
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:18:48AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote: I think the key is when doing your get-selections use: dpkg --get-selections \* my_selections Without the '*' dpkg will only list installed packages. With the '*' it will also list purged packages. That works great, That'll

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-09 Thread Paul Sargent
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:25:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm an utter newbie myself, but... last night I've seen a package that promises to build a local mirror from /var/apt/cache. I think it's called apt-move (not sure, try apt-* if that's wrong). Maybe that helps. You're

kdelibs3 broken in woody?

2001-11-09 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi, I get errors while dist-upgrading today Entpacke kdelibs3 (aus .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb) ... Entpacke kdebase-libs (aus .../kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1.1.0-10_i386.deb) ... dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1.1.0-10_i386.deb (--unpack): versuche

Re: Netscape in different desks with fvwm2

2001-11-09 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:18:35AM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote: I know how to automatically start Netscape in a different desktop (using fvwm2), but I would also like to be able to automatically also start the Messenger window in a third desktop. I.e., I'd like the initial Netscape window

True Type Fonts on Potato

2001-11-09 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi, I would like to improve the font display of my desktop for (mailnly) Mozilla and AbiWord. I think that the proper way to do this is by installing True Type fonts. I have a Potato box with Ximian Gnome. First I did an: apt-get install xfstt copied some *.ttf font files from a Windows box

Re: kdelibs3 broken in woody?

2001-11-09 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Jan Ulrich Hasecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I get errors while dist-upgrading today Sorry. I should think before I post. This is on testing. And I had a look into the buglist. It was reported and is closed, mh, perhaps not fully closed. ;-) I solved it with --force-overwrite Ciao!

Re: True Type Fonts on Potato

2001-11-09 Thread Ville Uski
* Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011109 12:10]: Than I went through the archives for Debian specific information and came across a pointer to a Debian TrueType Mini-Howto. Unfortunately I was unable to find such a document on the site. Any advice or pointer would be much appreciated!

Re: [debian-user] licq wont send messages

2001-11-09 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
--[Andrew Austin]--[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please adjust your line width to something reasonable. THANK YOU. I send my messages to the icq.mirabilis.com server and recieve an ack for them, they just don't make it to the person i'm sending to. Q: I'm receiving offline messages again each time I log

Backspace is delete

2001-11-09 Thread Michael Robinson
Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the ^H back into my Backspace in X text applications. I fixed /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, so now the console works. I checked the xmodmap, and that's configured correctly (verified with xev). But the Backspace key still

Debian2.2r4/Release says '2.2r3'

2001-11-09 Thread Hallvard B Furuseth
URL:ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r4/Release says: Version: 2.2r3 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:03:47 UTC Description: Debian 2.2r3 Released 16th April 2001 Can this be a problem? I don't know if other places say 2.2r3 as well. (I'm about to install my first

Re: USB PPP problem

2001-11-09 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it sounds strange, but I have debian 2.2R3 and it works perfect with kernel 2.2.19 but not usb, I think that my board is not suported (I have an IWILL, with K6, I can´t remenber the model). If I try to use kernel 2.4.13 I get the usb working, but I cant use ppp,

I have visited WWW.NL.DEBIAN.ORG and noticed that ...

2001-11-09 Thread Vanessa Lintner
Hello, I have visited www.nl.debian.org and noticed that your website is not

Re: wvdial problems being recognized

2001-11-09 Thread Hamma Scott
I read the README and they didn't mention anything about that. I'm guessing that's on the man page and I missed it? Maybe it should be RTFMT (RTFM thoroughly) for me. Thanks for the quick turn around on this. Scott --- ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you set up /etc/resolv.conf to list a

Re: I have visited WWW.NL.DEBIAN.ORG and noticed that ...

2001-11-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, you noticed that last year too, see the discussion in the archives. Besides, do you really think people going to read this quoted crap? Greetz, Sebastiaan -- NT is the OS of the future. The main engine is the 16-bit Subsystem (also called MS-DOS Subsystem). Above that, there is the

Re: USB PPP problem

2001-11-09 Thread John Hasler
Angel writes: If I try to use kernel 2.4.13 I get the usb working, but I cant use ppp,... You have to upgrade ppp. The version in 2.2r3 does not work with 2.4 kernels. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: Debian2.2r4/Release says '2.2r3'

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:54:09PM +0100, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: URL:ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian2.2r4/Release says: Version: 2.2r3 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:03:47 UTC Description: Debian 2.2r3 Released 16th April 2001 Can this be a problem? I don't know

Re: Backspace is delete

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the ^H back into my Backspace in X text applications. You should probably read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Search for Why doesn't my backspace,

Re: I have visited WWW.NL.DEBIAN.ORG and noticed that ...

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:54:31PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: you noticed that last year too, see the discussion in the archives. Besides, do you really think people going to read this quoted crap? She's just a spammer, best ignore her. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL

abiword fonts

2001-11-09 Thread Hanca
Hi all, I'd like to use AbiWord with Czech fonts. I was trying to search some how-to on the net but not succesfully. Please does someone have an advice? Hanka Ps: I'm running Woody box.

Re: Xwindows GUI

2001-11-09 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 08 November 2001 11:48 pm, 57j wrote: I just installed Debian and made the mistake of turning on the Xwindows GUI login. How do I turn that off and startup with the text prompt? Thanks, Cathy Cramer from an earlier discussion, (16 Feb 2001), worked for me: -copied

Re: xscreensaver on woody

2001-11-09 Thread George Karaolides
On 8 Nov 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 11:41, George Karaolides wrote: On 7 Nov 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 16:15, George Karaolides wrote: Hi, I'm running woody, using the icewm window manager. I can start

Re: Backspace is delete

2001-11-09 Thread Shaya Potter
On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 08:52, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the ^H back into my Backspace in X text applications. You should probably read

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-09 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Romuald DELAVERGNE wrote: On 2001.11.08 23:44 Michael D. Schleif wrote: You can use 'basename' command to remove complete path. Are we trying to optimize the thrown together? How about one (1) line for both ??? echo $file | sed 's!^.*/!!;s!\..*$!!' -- Best Regards, mds mds

Re: X11 v4 Switch

2001-11-09 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Stephen E. Hargrove [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently ran an apt-get dist-upgrade on a Woody box. I noticed that it upgraded X, which is fine. However, the box isn't running the upgraded server. What do I need to change in order to get v4 to fire up? I think it's using the old

Re: Backspace is delete

2001-11-09 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:38:55AM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote: | On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 08:52, Colin Watson wrote: | On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: | Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the | ^H back into my Backspace in X

Re: OT: scripting question

2001-11-09 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Are we trying to optimize the thrown together? How about one (1) line for both ??? echo $file | sed 's!^.*/!!;s!\..*$!!' sed is powerful but I prefer the simplest way: basename $file .mp3

Re: Occasional Network/DHCP weirdness

2001-11-09 Thread David P James
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 22:55, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: [Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 07:50:58PM -0500] David P James : our ISP uses DHCP that's what the server set to use and most of the time it works just fine (It's set up with dhcp-client). But every now and then it loses the connection

Re: apt-get upgrade woes

2001-11-09 Thread P Kirk
Forgot the attachment. 6530 execve(/usr/bin/dpkg, [dpkg, -i, util-linux_2.11l-3_i386.deb], [/* 22 vars */]) = 0 6530 open(/etc/ld.so.preload, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 6530 open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 4 6530 fstat64(0x4, 0xb044) = 0 6530

Re: Building package caches not under Debian

2001-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 16:38:29 -0500, David West wrote: I understand that apt needs Packages.gz files for the local cache. Which can be generated quite easily through dpkg-scanpackages(8) as included in the dpkg-dev package. HTH, Ray -- Personally, I guess I'd favor a sort of modified form

Re: problems with the keyboard?....I don't think so....

2001-11-09 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 19:06, Fabio Cesari wrote: Hi all! Yesterday I updated a debian woody. It was first installed in June, therefore most of the installed packages have been updated. After dselect finished the update process, all seemed to work fine, and all the services were working well

Mirror Server for Intranet Servers

2001-11-09 Thread root
Hi, i want to make an intranet server with the stable testing and unstable distribution mirror ftp. In this way my other servers will be updated by this, configuring apt in appropriate configuration. I have tried the script found at the link http://www.it.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror that

Total lockup with kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
I had two lockups with kernel 2.4.12; I've just had another with 2.4.14. I was online at all these times, using Acroread on the last occasion. No key or mouse would work. The hard disk kept running. I think this may be a VM issue, because it doesn't seem to happen with the Alan Cox patches.

Re: Backspace is delete

2001-11-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 07:47:38PM +0800, Michael Robinson wrote: Maybe I'm just being a clueless newbie, but I can't find where to put the ^H back into my Backspace in X text applications. You should probably read

2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread shyamk
Dear members , I have 2 doubts : 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loader or the Win 2K/Win NT boot loader to MBR ? Thanks , ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

RE: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread Paul McHale
Dear members , I have 2 doubts : 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loader or the Win 2K/Win NT boot loader to MBR ? I think the answer to both questions is c:\ fdisk /mbr Then

Re: Total lockup with kernel 2.4.14

2001-11-09 Thread David Rose
Anthony Campbell in message Total lockup with kernel 2.4.14 (Fri, 11/09 16:32): I had two lockups with kernel 2.4.12; I've just had another with 2.4.14. I was online at all these times, using Acroread on the last occasion. No key or mouse would work. The hard disk kept running. I think this

Can't cycle thru X screen resolutions

2001-11-09 Thread tom schuetz
I'm running the generic S3 SVGA server, and it works fine, but only at what looks like 600 x 800. This is no matter what I do with [CTRL] and [ALT] and +/-. This is also no matter what I specify in manually editing XF86Config OR in running xf86config OR in running XFSetup. I don't get any

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Ferlatte
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? You don't have to, you can just over-write it with whatever other bootloader you want to use (like GRUB! :) 2) How do you write (manually)

Re: kdelibs3 broken in woody?

2001-11-09 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:29, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: I get errors while dist-upgrading today Sorry. I should think before I post. This is on testing. And I had a look into the buglist. It was reported and is closed, mh, perhaps not fully closed. ;-) I solved it with

x broken after upgrade

2001-11-09 Thread M.J.P.Benschop
Hi, I'm running potato on a laptop with a ATI Mobility M 4. I had a perfectly fine working X whith kde and everything. After I did an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade earlier this week X got broken. Am I the only one experiencing this I'll attach the /var/log/XFree86.log. What I make from it

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread xio
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:04:36PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members , I have 2 doubts : 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot loader or the Win 2K/Win NT boot loader to MBR

RE: Backspace is delete

2001-11-09 Thread Kris Huber
Shaya, Try adding: (global-set-key \C-h 'backward-delete-char) to your .emacs file on the Solaris side. I think that will take care of your problem. Maybe you'll run into other keys that don't get mapped the same, but you can easily configure that in the .emacs file. I'm not sure how to make

Re: 2 doubts

2001-11-09 Thread John Hasler
Shyam writes: 1) How do you take lilo out of MBR in a fully functional Win-Lin dual-boot machine ? The same way as on any machine running Linux: 'lilo -u /dev/hdxx'. This puts the MBR back the way it was before Lilo was installed. 2) How do you write (manually) either the Win 98 boot

R: problems with the keyboard?....I don't think so....

2001-11-09 Thread Fabio Cesari
Removing gpm solved the problem!! Grazie Andrea!! Fabio -Messaggio originale- Da: Andrea Vettorello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 9 novembre 2001 17.12 A: debian-user mailing list Oggetto: Re: problems with the keyboard?I don't think so On Thu, 2001-11-08

No xpr on debian...

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Fontenot
The xwd man page (for dumping an image of an X window) gives a see also for xpr (for printing the resulting X window dump). But xpr doesn't exist on my 2.2r3 debian distribution. What's going on? This is a fundamental capability...has xpr been replaced by something else to do this job?

GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Phil Edwards
There's probably an easy way out of this mess, but I'm somewhat new to Debian. (Been using Linux for years, but just recently switched to using a distro rather than hacking everything together by hand.) For a while now I've had both gcc/gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0 installed; three packages in all. I

ctrl key functionality gone missing

2001-11-09 Thread MRZ
I've noticed a fair bit of traffic on this general topic, so hopefully the answer to this springs right to mind.. I've a debian potato install that was recently upgraded to use the 2.4.x kernel line. I essentially upgraded Debian itself and my Ximian desktop at the same time, using the bunk

Ftp downloads for Linux running AMD K6

2001-11-09 Thread shyamk
Could somebody please send me the URL of an FTP site from where I can download binaries (/bin variety and /sbin variety) for Linux running AMD K6 ? My machine shows up as i586 . Regards, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Shyam

Re: x broken after upgrade

2001-11-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:58:10PM +0100, M.J.P.Benschop wrote: I'm running potato on a laptop with a ATI Mobility M 4. Good. I had a perfectly fine working X whith kde and everything. After I did an apt-get update/apt-get upgrade earlier this week X got broken. I'll attach the

cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Lars Jensen
Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same problem on all of them: When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the three woody machines I get the error: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 (I did not forget to do the xhost + to

Re: POP over SSL

2001-11-09 Thread Andreas Goesele
Alexander Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello there! What is the package I need to apt-get to be able to connect to my server using SSL? Thanks! stunnel? Andreas Goesele

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:00:21PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: | For a while now I've had both gcc/gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0 installed; three | packages in all. I briefly tried uninstalling the gcc/gcc-2.95 packages | (why are there two of them? they're the same thing, aren't they?) but | found that

Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread dman
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:31:00AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: | Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same | problem on all of them: | | When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the | three woody machines I get the error: | |

Re: Can't cycle thru X screen resolutions

2001-11-09 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:43:55AM -0800, tom schuetz wrote: I'm running the generic S3 SVGA server, and it works fine, but only at what looks like 600 x 800. This is no matter what I do with [CTRL] and [ALT] and +/-. This is also no matter what I specify in manually editing XF86Config OR

Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:31, Lars Jensen wrote: Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same problem on all of them: When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the three woody machines I get the error: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't

Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Cam Ellison
I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I have an odd one. Installation of kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb gets hung up at the following stage: Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... Replacing files in old package kdebase-libs ... Replacing files in old package

Re: Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:01:14AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I have an odd one. Installation of kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb gets hung up at the following stage: Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... Replacing files in old

syslogd and iptables

2001-11-09 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi all, what do i have to enter to the sylog.conf to split all the iptables messages done by the LOG (-j LOG) target into another file than messages? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from search.keyserver.net ID: 0xEC4950E9

Re: Second sending...

2001-11-09 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 08 Nov 2001, Ian Millsom wrote: Its a rtl8139.. Now a lot of people will bag these cards, but they do the job. I have about 30 other machines all the same setup (processors/hdd/memory) differ, but the setup is the same and they all work fine. what is the system(s) hooked to?

Re: Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I have an odd one. Installation of kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.1-14_i386.deb gets hung up at the following stage: Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ... Replacing files in old package

Re: GCC packages fighting amongst themselves?

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:00:21PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: There's probably an easy way out of this mess, but I'm somewhat new to Debian. (Been using Linux for years, but just recently switched to using a distro rather than hacking everything together by hand.) For a while now I've had

Re: Mouse wheel in woody

2001-11-09 Thread Aniartia
On Friday 09 November 2001 00:01, Steffen Evers wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 23:33, Aniartia wrote: Is it the same procedure with woody (XFree86 4.1.0)? Yes but you shouldn't need to do this: in Xsession: - # Starts the imwheel process from

vsound and echo

2001-11-09 Thread Lang Hurst
I recently installed vsound with the intent of burning old episodes of This American Life onto a couple of CD's for a road trip. It installed with no problems, but when I record it has a really strong unwanted echo. RealPlayer works fine, but the echo happens in the redirect. Here is the

Re: Problem with testing upgrade (kdelibs3)

2001-11-09 Thread Cam Ellison
Thanks, Colin. That seems to have done the trick quite nicely. * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:01:14AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: I just ran my weekly upgrade, which is usually problem-free, but now I have an odd one. Installation of

apt-get download for remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at work. What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine, take some ouputted list of files which need to be updated, use the machine at work to download those on the list, and transfer the files (say via CD, zip or

extace alsa compile error

2001-11-09 Thread Adam John Henry
I'm running sid, and after downloading (apt-get source extace) extace version 1.6.1 I am getting compile errors. My intention is to enable alsa support. To do this, I entered the extracted directory and edited the file './debian/rules' and changed '--disable-alsa' to '--enable-alsa'. I then ran

Apt-get install removes?

2001-11-09 Thread Iiro A K Jantunen
Hi! I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened, was shocking to me. What was the problem? Why did install start such removing mayhem? I have used both potato and woody as sources for different packages. I had just commented woody out from /etc/apt/sources.list and

Help

2001-11-09 Thread HFaisal
I have contacted the site you have placed a page holder on. I have been able to reach this site as recently as !!/3/01 in A.M. By P.M. this page was installed. I contacted the Web Master about your site's block. They don't know why. I need help. Neither I nor the site I am trying to reach knows

Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine

2001-11-09 Thread Casey Webster
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, find the line that says :0 blah blah and take off the -nolisten tcp option from that line, then restart XDM. next time you logon, you will be able to connect to your machine remotely with X. On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote: On Fri, Nov 09,

Re: Help

2001-11-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
I have contacted the site you have placed a page holder on. I have been able to reach this site as recently as !!/3/01 in A.M. By P.M. this page was installed. I contacted the Web Master about your site's block. They don't know why. I need help. Neither I nor the site I am trying to

Re: Which installer? Aptitude, dselect deity...

2001-11-09 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 20:53:51 -0800 Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you recommended it, I installed and took a look at stormpkg. My first impression is that it doesn't give me as much information as dselect, and makes it harder to get at. For one thing, I have several Python

iiBCS Emulator Modules for Linux

2001-11-09 Thread Amir Bukhari
halla all, when I try to compile iBCS, i become compiling error this error it not normal because it said that the most of the /usr/include/linux/*.h has syntax.., for example: c39a:/usr/src/modules/ibcs-2.2/iBCSemul# make gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -D__NO_VERSION__ -I../include -I/include

Re: weird nvidia problem in unstable

2001-11-09 Thread Dominique Deleris
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 09:46:13 -0500, Mental [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mental Hello, I've run accross an odd condition on my debian (unstable) box. It Mental seems that Quake3 is no longer textured properly on my geforce card. The Mental game starts fine. Menu's look ok. Startup screen loads

Running DirectX Games using Linux OS

2001-11-09 Thread Lambrecht, Joris
Hi all, I've been off the thread for some time but ... Just to let you all know that http://www.transgaming.com/ is offering WineX wich it claims (and has had some good reports allready) to enable windows games to run on top of Linux. Hopefully this will be incorporated into the Debian distro

Re: Netscape in different desks with fvwm2

2001-11-09 Thread Mike Fontenot
Many thanks to Erdmut Pfeifer for a very informative response! I'll try that suggestion ASAP. One possible show-stopper: I tried dragging the Messenger window to another desktop, by using the 2nd mouse button within the pager window. It worked, but all pop-ups triggered by my use of the

Re: Apt-get install removes?

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:01:08PM +0200, Iiro A K Jantunen wrote: I tried to install (upgrade) perl on my Debian Potato. What happened, was shocking to me. Looks like you tried to upgrade potato's perl to the perl from testing. 'apt-get install' won't make good decisions if you try that, as

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